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FastCompany  Below, Stefanie O’Connell shares five key insights from her new book,  The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up―and Then Pushes Them Down . Stefanie is an award-winning financial journalist whose work has been published in  Slate ,  Bloomberg ,  Newsweek ,  USA Today ,  Glamour UK ,  Business Insider , and  CNBC.com . She wrote, hosted, and coproduced the Webby Award-winning podcast  Money Confidential  and publishes the  Too Ambitious  newsletter. WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? The belief that women need to be  more ambitious  is a myth. The real problem is that workplaces and society often punish women for acting on their ambition, and this shifts attention away from the systemic changes needed to achieve equality. 1. WOMEN DON’T LACK AMBITION—THEY FACE AN AMBITION PENALTY For decades, popular career advice for women has rested on the assumption that women are less ambitious than th...

 Last week, I highlighted Noni, Guntur, who completed a half marathon in Brazil as part of his training for the fall marathon. This week, we have an update from Liz Bergst: ********************** Running (and running, and running, and running) for change! As Lucy mentioned in previous blog posts, I’m training for the Chicago Marathon this fall, along with MHIR colleague Anyonya Guntur, and also my husband Bret and my daughter Bea, and another running friend. This week we had a big run! Training for a marathon is hard work- this will be a first marathon for Bea and I (and Anyonya!) and a second for Bret, and we're learning a lot about blisters, leg cramps, chafing, what shoes and shorts and socks to wear and definitely what not to wear! We’ve worn through the treads on the sneakers we bought in March!  This week our long run is 13 miles, half the total distance we’ll be running in October . We’re equal parts nervous and excited thinking about that finish line! But we’re ru...

  A Weekly Update of Policy News and Select Funding Opportunities Compiled by  Van Scoyoc Associates View this email in your browser July 31, 2026 Health   Senate HELP Committee advances Trump’s CDC, ASPR, Labor secretary nominees  The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Thursday voted to advance President Trump’s nominees to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). The committee voted 12-10 to move forward with Erica Schwartz’s nomination to serve as the next director of the CDC and 12-11 for Sean Kaufman to serve as the next administrator of ASPR. Trump’s nomination of Keith Sonderling to serve as Labor secretary also advanced 12-11. At the start of the session, HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) voiced his intentions to support all the nominees before the committee Thursday. Cassidy had taken issue with Kaufman during his confirmation hear...